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Bracers of Spell Reflection

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a monk)


While wearing these mirrored bracers, you gain a +2 bonus to AC if you are wearing no armor and using no shield. In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against spells.

While wearing the bracers, you can use your Deflect Missiles feature when you're hit by a ranged spell attack, reducing its damage as if it were from a ranged weapon. If you reduce the damage to 0, you don't suffer any of the spel...

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Unicorn Diadem

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a cleric or paladin)


A unicorn’s horn rests at the center of this diadem. While wearing the diadem, you can use it as a spellcasting focus, as if you were holding it. In addition, you have resistance to poison damage and have advantage on saving throws against poison. When you cast a spell while wearing the diadem, you can change the spell’s damage type for that casting to radiant damage, unless its normal damage t...

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Mace of Vampire Slaying

Weapon (mace), rare

This weapon is made from a vampire's skull and impaled with various wooden stakes. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. The bonus increases to +3 when you use the mace to attack a vampire.

When you roll a 20 on an attack roll made with the weapon, the target takes an extra 10 necrotic damage as the skull bites down on the target. You then gain 10 temporary hit points, which remain for 1 minute. Alternatively, if t...

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Kobold Diviner's Hand

Wondrous item, uncommon


This severed hand of a kobold diviner still twitches on occasion. You can use an action while holding it to speak its command word followed by the name or description of an object, said in Draconic. If one or more of those objects is within 1,000 feet of you, the hand points towards the nearest one with one, two, three, or all four of its fingers. For each finger pointing, the object is within a cumulative 250 feet in the pointed direction. Th...

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Heroic Ideas — Choose 2 community item ideas to be made!

Hey heroes!

Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top two most voted-for item ideas each week get made, following back and forth workshopping and discussion.

You can submit your...

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Public Poll — The Dragonwing Scimitars are now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Dragonwing Scimitars' art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the Ledger+! Have fun with them, and keep on adventuring!

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Dragonwing Scimitars

Weapon (scimitar), legendary (requires attunement)


This pair of twin scimitars features draconic guards and winglike blades. Despite there being two weapons, they are considered to be a single item for the purposes of attuning to them. While holding one of the swords, you always know the general direction and distance of the other.

Chromatic Change. Each of the swords is associated with a damage type: either acid, cold, fire, lightning...

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Staff of the Whirling Wyrm

Weapon (quarterstaff), uncommon (requires attunement by a monk)


This quarterstaff can convert kinetic force into added reach. A silver dragon wraps up the length of the staff, with scales that look like metal plates. You can use this weapon to make the attacks granted to you by your Flurry of Blows. When you use your Flurry of Blows, you can immediately move up to 5 feet, without provoking opportunity attacks, and the staff separates into three sections; the dragon's...

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Hagstone Amulets

Wondrous item, uncommon


A hagstone is a naturally occurring stone that's pockmarked with holes and crystalline veins. To be transformed into a magical hagstone amulet, it must be made by a hag. If a hag decides to give away one of these amulets, it always comes at a price.

On its own, a hagstone amulet does nothing. However, you can perform a 1-hour ritual to bind three or more amulets. If three or more bound hagstone amulets are worn...

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Sahuagin Sabatons

Wondrous item, uncommon


These armored sabatons fit neatly over any boot or shoe you're already wearing. While wearing them, you have a swimming speed of 30 feet. If you already have a swimming speed, wearing the sabatons increases that speed by 15 feet.


"Come, gather round and witness the remarkable magic of these sabatons! Take to the water like a fish, but with feet!"

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Wand of the Plagueswarm

Wand, very rare (requires attunement)


This wand has 7 charges for the following properties. It regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand dissolves into a fetid slime that sizzles and evaporates, destroying the wand and leaving behind a stain that can never be cleaned.

Spells. While holding the wand, you can use an action to cast one of the following spells from it (save ...

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Heroic Ideas — Choose 2 community item ideas to be made!

Hey heroes!

Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top two most voted-for item ideas each week get made, following back and forth workshopping and discussion.

You can submit your...

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Public Poll — The Adrenal Blades are now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Adrenal Blades' art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the Ledger+! Have fun with them, and keep on adventuring!

2023-05-20 12:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Adrenal Blades

Weapon (scimitar), very rare (requires attunement)


This pair of scimitars are made of darkened steel and have feather-like designs. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with these magic weapons, which are considered to be a single item for the purposes of attuning to them. While holding one of the swords, you always know the general direction and distance of the other. While the swords are on your person, choose one of the following benefits whenever y...

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Mask of the Planeseeker

Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement)


This elaborate mask was first worn by an interplanar diplomat. While wearing it, you understand any spoken language you hear, and when you speak, any creature that can hear you and knows at least one language can understand what you say. The mask also functions as an amulet of the planes. You can't be teleported against your will or unwillingly transported to another plane of existence by another creature or hos...

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Wand of Entombment

Wand, very rare (requires attunement)


This wand's bone handle is connected to a large coffin nail by a rigid chain. The wand has 7 charges for the following properties. It regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.

Detect Undead. You can use an action to hold the wand out in front of you and expend 1 of its charges. When you do...

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Freezing Gauntlets

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)


When not worn, these gauntlets appear to be simple iron cuffs. Once worn, however, creeping plates of crystalline ice form from beneath the metal to encase your arms and hands in icy gauntlets. While wearing the gauntlets, you have resistance to cold damage, and any target you hit with them as part of an unarmed strike takes an extra 1d4 cold damage. Alternatively, frost creeps up the metal of any weapon you're holding. ...

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Gorgon Potion

Potion, rare


This potion contains trace amounts of gorgon blood. When you drink this potion, you're immune to being petrified for 1d4 hours. If you're already petrified, another creature can apply the potion to you and suspend the effect for 1d4 hours instead. In either case, for the duration of the potion's effects, your skin hardens into flexible metal plates; your AC can't be lower than 18.

While under the effects of the potion, you can use an action to exha...

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Heroic Ideas — Choose 2 community item ideas to be made!

Hey heroes!

Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top two most voted-for item ideas each week get made, following back and forth workshopping and discussion.

You can submit your...

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Public Poll — The Pop-Up Business Card is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Pop-Up Business Card's art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the Ledger+! Have fun with them, and keep on adventuring!

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Ramp-Up Ring

Ring, very rare


The swirls that cover this golden ring seem to slowly writhe. The ring can hold up to 3 charges, and it gains 1 charge at the start of each of your turns in combat. If you score a critical hit while in combat, it immediately gains 3 charges, up to its maximum.

While the ring has 3 charges, you gain a +3 bonus to damage rolls from weapon attacks, and the minimum number you have to roll on a d20 to score a critical hit with a weapon attack is redu...

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Spellforge Scabbard

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)


This teal leather scabbard is decorated with mithral emblems. While wearing it, you can use a bonus action to drag a weapon across the scabbard. For the next minute, the weapon glows with a faint blue aura, and you can use a bonus action to magically return that weapon to the scabbard, stowing it there. If the weapon was nonmagical, it also becomes magic and has a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls for the duration. The effe...

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[Cards] Pack of Item Cards from April 2023

Want to use or print a lot of cards, but shudder at the thought of downloading all those files?

Never fear, hero! Download a month's worth of cards in a simple .zip file, ready for you to print at home or professionally, as well as the digital files to use for your Roll20 games!

Keep on adventuring!

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Crossbow of the Flying Fist

Weapon (crossbow, hand), uncommon (requires attunement)


The front of this weapon is carved in the likeness of a wooden fist. Crossbow bolts fired from this weapon deal either bludgeoning or piercing damage on a hit (your choice). If you deal bludgeoning damage to a target in this way, the crossbow bolt impacts the target without piercing it, leaving only a sizable welt or bruise behind. When this happens, you can also choose to have a mage hand appear at the...

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Incendiary Caltrops

Wondrous item, uncommon


These caltrops contain a magical heat source at their center. A set of incendiary caltrops comes with 1d6 + 6 magic caltrops when found. You can use an action to throw any number of these caltrops in an unoccupied 5-foot square on the ground that you can see within 15 feet of you. When you do, roll a number of d4s equal to the number of caltrops thrown and record the total. When a creature steps into that space, it must immediately ma...

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Pop-Up Business Card

Wondrous item, common


This two-by-three-inch paper card somehow weighs 1 pound and feels like it's made of wood and metal. It looks like a wooden shop sign with a painted lantern on either side.

You can use an action to toss the card to a point on the ground within 10 feet of you and speak its command word. The card then magically unfolds to instantly reveal a wooden market stall. A lawful neutral goblin merchant stands behind the stall, who has at least one pi...

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Heroic Ideas: April Runner-Ups — Choose 2 community item ideas to be made!

Hey heroes!

Each week on Discord, community members nominate other members' suggested items to be made into official Saddlebag items. The top two most voted-for item ideas each week get made, following back and forth workshopping and discussion.

You can submit your...

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Public Poll — The Time Warden Armor is now free!

Hey adventurers! Thanks for casting your votes this week!

The Time Warden Armor's art and card files are now public and considered OGL content*! Grab them with the links below or on the Ledger+! Have fun with them, and keep on adventuring!

2023-05-06 12:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Time Warden Armor

Armor (breastplate), very rare (requires attunement)

This silver and brass breastplate is adorned with subtle clock designs. While wearing this armor, you are immune to the slow spell and don’t suffer the negative effects of haste when it ends on you.

When you roll initiative while wearing this armor, use the number rolled on the d20, before adding any modifiers, to determine which of the following effects occur:

2023-05-05 13:24:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Cloak of the Protector's Charge

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)


When you finish a long rest while wearing this cloak, choose up to four other creatures that you can see within 30 feet of you. You and those creatures then gain 10 temporary hit points. In addition, the cloak has 5 charges and regains 1d3 + 2 expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the cloak, you can use a bonus action to expend 1 of its charges to grant a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you 1d6 + 4 tempora...

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